SC asks United Bank to pay customer ₹6L for opening locker

SC asks United Bank to pay customer ₹6L for opening locker

Dhananjay.Mahapatra@timesgroup.com

New Delhi:20.02.2021

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that breaking open a customer's locker by a bank was a serious breach of trust and ordered United Bank of India to pay Rs 6 lakh compensation to an aggrieved person whose locker was broken open at a Kolkata branch more than 25 years ago.

The locker was opened by Amitabha Dasgupta's mother in the 1950s. He became a joint holder of the locker in the 1970s. The bank informed Dasgupta in 1995 that the locker had been broken open and allotted to another person as the rent was not paid for 1993-94.

When Dasgupta proved that he had paid rent for the previous year, the bank admitted its mistake. When the customer wanted back the seven pieces of jewellery deposited in the locker, the bank could return only two.

The district consumer forum awarded Rs 3 lakh as cost of jewellery to Dasgupta and an additional Rs 50,000 for mental agony, harassment and cost of litigation.

PG student shoots at friend in class, later kills girl; held

PG student shoots at friend in class, later kills girl; held

Arindam Ghosh TNN

Jhansi:20.02.2021

A misunderstanding over the relationship between three classmates took a grisly turn on Friday when a 24-yearold postgraduate student of Bundelkhand Degree College in Jhansi first shot at and critically injured his male classmate in a classroom and then shot his woman classmate dead in front of her house. He waslaterarrested.

All the three students, said to be close friends, are students of first year MA.

Manthan Singh Senger entered the classroom carrying a pistoland shotathisfriend Hukmendra Singh Gurjar, 22, from behindon hisheadwhile he was attending class. He went on to the blackboard and wrote ‘Manthan Finished’.

He then went to the house of his classmate Kritika Trivedi

(22), who was sitting in front of her house with her grandmother. Hearing gunshots, her neighbours overpowered the accused, tied him up and called the police, reports added.

Police arrested Manthan while both the victims were rushed to hospital where Kritika succumbed. Hukmendra is in a critical state. He was later shifted to Delhi.

Unconfirmed reports said Manthan was in a relationship with Kritika and unhappy over Hukumendra’s interference.

SSP Jhansi Dinesh Kumar P said, “The accused and the victims were close friends. They had developed some misunderstanding over relationship issues.”

Officials at the site in Unnao on Friday where bodies of two minor girls were found

Cops say spurned lover poisoned Unnao girls; 2 held

Claiming it to be a diabolic act of a spurned lover, police on Friday said the three minor Dalit girls found unconscious in their field at Baburha village of UP’s Unnao on Wednesday were poisoned by a Dalit youth from a neighbouring village. They arrested Vinay Kumar

(25) and his 15-year-old accomplice, also a Dalit, as the two accused in the case.

While two girls, aged13 and15, died on way to hospital, the third one, aged 17, is battling for life. IG Lakshmi Singh said Vinay said he wanted to kill the third girl and made her drink water spiked with insecticide, but the other two also drank from the same bottle. TNN

Three more trains to be back on tracks

Three more trains to be back on tracks

Indore:20.02.2021

Three more long-distance trains are set to resume from Indore from February last week & March first week.

The trains include Indore-Delhi Sarai Rohilla Express, Indore-GandhiNagar Express and Dr Ambedkar Nagar-Indore-Yeshwantpur Express. While Indore-Delhi Sarai Rohilla and Indore Yeshwantpur will resume from February 28 as weekly special trains, Indore-Gandhi Nagar will start operating from March1 on a daily basis.

Indore-Delhi Sarai Rohilla Special train will depart from Indore every Sunday at 07.20pm, and reach Delhi Sarai Rohilla the next day at 12.05pm. The train will depart from Delhi every Monday at 03.00pm, and reach Indore at 08.30am on Tuesday. With this, the total number of trains operating to and from Indore would go up to 24. TNN

Official showcaused after CM spends uneasy night with mosquitoes

Official showcaused after CM spends uneasy night with mosquitoes

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Bhopal:20.02.2021

A PWD executive engineer has been showcaused after mosquitoes and an overflowing water tank gave chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan a sleepless night at a circuit house during his visit to Sidhi to meet families of those killed in the bus tragedy.

The notice, issued by Rewa divisional commissioner Rajesh Kumar Jain, asks Davendra Kumar Singh to explain why two years’ salary increment shouldn’t be withheld.

When TOI contacted Jain, he initially denied having taken any action against the engineer, but when told that his notice was already doing the rounds on social media, he said: “The letter has been written but (there’s) no action so far.”

Chouhan had on Wednesday met families who lost their loved ones in the bus accident in Banganga canal. He went village to village to reach out to the bereaved and said all possible relief would be provided by the government.

After a long and tiring day, the CM decided to stay for the night in Sidhi. Room number 1 of the circuit house was opened for him. Officials learnt the next morning that the CM spent an uncomfortable night. Apart from the swarms of mosquitoes, someone forgot to switch off the pump and the tank kept overflowing.

Caretakers tried to convince officers that mosquitoes had got in as the room remained open for hours due to a steady stream of visitors. Night halt was not on the CM’s schedule, so the rooms were not prepared, say sources.

This isn’t the first time that mosquitoes landed officials in trouble. In 2015, two engineers in Shivpuri were suspended by the then animal husbandry minister Kusum Mehedele over defunct air-conditioners and mosquito bites at the circuit house.

Masked men break into bank’s strongroom, thwarted by lockers

Masked men break into bank’s strongroom, thwarted by lockers

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Bhopal:20.02.2021

Two unidentified masked accused barged into a nationalised bank located in Sukhi Sewania after breaking the window grill in the early hours of Thursday morning. They broke the strong room lock and attempted to open the lockers, but could not break them and fled the scene. The accused were caught on the CCTV cameras fitted at the bank. Sukhi Sewania police registered a break-in case and started the investigation.

Investigating officer SI Swati Godre said, complainant Mahendra Banode, 57, is posted as branch manager at a nationalised bank in Chopda Kalan village of Sukhi Sewania.

On Wednesday around 7.15 pm, Banode locked the bank and went home. Next day, on Thursday morning around 10.20 am, when he went to open the bank, and found that the iron grill of the window had been cut. He immediately informed police and senior bank officials. When he entered , he found that entire bank was ransacked and thieves had tried to break the lockers.

When police checked the CCTV camera footage, they found two masked men barging into the bank breaking the window grill and attempting to break the lockers. There was no security guard deployed at the bank nor was there any alarm system. Cops suspect that accused may have come from the forest area behind the bank to commit theft.

The incident took place in the early hours of Thursday. There was no security guard deployed at the bank nor was there any alarm system

LIC employees not exempt from civic poll duties, HC says

LIC employees not exempt from civic poll duties, HC says

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Ahmedabad:20.02.2021

The employees of the Life Insurance Corporation Ltd (LIC) will have to render election duty as the Gujarat high court on Friday refused to stay the State Election Commission’s (SEC) order requisitioning their services for poll duty.

The court, however, has admitted LIC’s petition challenging the SEC’s powers to order LIC to deploy its employees in the civic elections. The HC will hear this issue further on April  28. LIC has claimed that although its employees fall within the ambit of Section 159 of the Representation of People Act and they can be deployed for poll duty for the Parliament and state assembly elections, but SEC does not have jurisdiction to requisition their services.

During the hearing, LIC proposed to spare 20% of its staff for poll duty, but the high court found the proposal “unreasonable”. It said that this would disrupt smooth functioning of the election at the last moment and this cannot be allowed. The Election Commission told the court that total 4.19 crore voters are to cast their votes in civic elections and it required 2.85 lakh polling staff.

Why you should not rub your eye

Why you should not rub your eye

20.02.2021

If there is a foreign object that gets lodged in your eye, you should take care to not rub it. Most people assume, incorrectly, that doing so will produce tears which could wash out the foreign substance. However, it may also cause damage to the eye, such as scratches or abrasions.

What you should do instead is wash or repeatedly rinse your eye with clean running water. If this doesn’t work, cover the eye with a loose bandage and visit a doctor.

— DAILY MIRROR